Local News in Brief : School AIDS Policy Gains
An AIDS policy given preliminary approval by the Palos Verdes Peninsula School District would formally grant to teachers and other employees who contract the disease the right to continue working for as long as they can satisfactorily perform their duties.
The policy, if given final approval, also would put the district on record as allowing any student with AIDS to continue attending classes “with a few exceptions.”
District spokeswoman Nancy Mahr said school officials are not aware of any AIDS cases currently in their schools, “but AIDS is a serious fact of life in our society and the thinking is that we ought to be as prepared as possible to deal effectively with it, if a case should arise.”
Many school systems, particularly the smaller ones with limited staff and money, are holding back on declaring AIDS policies in hopes that the county or state will come up with an authoritative model that can be adopted readily, said Bob Grossman, a spokesman for the county Department of Education.
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